rix-dollar

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪksˌdɒlə/

The English word “rix-dollar” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.
A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.

Borrowed from obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler (modern rijksdaalder), after early modern German Reichsthaler.

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